iPhone scratchgate, more
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Apple says EU law means more delayed features, maybe even hardware
- Apple responds to iPhone 17 Pro scratch and durability concerns
- iOS 26.1 hints at iPhone adding support for third-party smartwatches
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Thursday, September 25th, 2025. I'm your host, Chance Miller. |
| 0:10.0 | We are sponsored this week by Backblaze. Leading off today, the European Union is currently carrying out a consultation process into the impact of its Digital Markets Act, or DMA. |
| 0:21.7 | This is the antitrust legislation, which required Apple to permit third-party app stores, |
| 0:28.3 | and which the company says has made it impossible to release some software features to EU users. |
| 0:35.2 | In its response this week, Apple says it has not yet released either iPhone mirroring |
| 0:39.9 | or AirPods live translation within the EU over privacy concerns, and it expects more features |
| 0:47.0 | to be delayed in Europe in the future. The quick backstory here is that Europe's DMA |
| 0:52.1 | antitrust legislation designated a number of tech companies as quote-unquote gatekeepers, meaning that they are powerful enough to use their market dominance to block competition. |
| 1:02.8 | Apple was designated a gatekeeper in part because it had a monopoly over the sale of apps for the iPhone. |
| 1:10.0 | It was told that it must allow people to buy and sell iPhone apps outside of the App Store, |
| 1:14.6 | leading to the opportunity for third-party developers to use third-party marketplaces. |
| 1:20.6 | More relevant to this week's response is that the DMA also says if Apple offers new iPhone-powered features that work with its own hardware like |
| 1:28.9 | AirPods, then it must make that same connected feature available to third-party hardware companies. |
| 1:36.4 | Apple says that this poses a significant privacy challenge, and that's why it's delayed the launch |
| 1:42.1 | of those features in the EU. For example, Apple says that |
| 1:45.7 | live translation is designed so that users' conversations stay private. They're processed on |
| 1:51.9 | device and are never accessible to Apple, and bringing this feature with those privacy protections |
| 1:57.5 | to other devices would be challenging or impossible to do. |
| 2:02.3 | iPhone mirroring, meanwhile, is a feature that lets users see and interact from their iPhone |
| 2:06.3 | from their Mac for checking notifications, moving photos between devices, trying apps, and |
| 2:11.7 | more. |
| 2:12.8 | Apple says that its teams still have not found a secure way to bring this feature to non-Apple devices |
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